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Head of English/Prof. of English & History@Carnegie Mellon. Knowledge-monger: clandestine print, weird data, book history, computational humanities, political thought. Author, Literature & the Law of Nations. 6 Degrees of Francis Bacon. Humanities for all.

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Chris Warren @chriswarren.info · 28/09/2026
Obsidian--and I've also started making and sharing skeleton vaults for my students, now super easy to pre-populate with readings, concepts, assignments, etc.
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Chris Warren @chriswarren.info · 10/09/2026
George Saunders was exactly as funny and interesting in conversation as he is on the page. Such a fun convo and such an awesome dude. pghrev.com/talking-abou...
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Talking about Thrills with George Saunders - Pittsburgh Review of Books
George Saunders will be appearing at Pittsburgh Arts and Lectures as part of the "Ten Evening Series" at the Carnegie Music Hall on September 14th, 2026 at
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Chris Warren @chriswarren.info · 10/09/2026
George Saunders was exactly as funny and interesting in conversation as he is on the page. Such a fun convo and such an awesome dude. pghrev.com/talking-abou...
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Talking about Thrills with George Saunders - Pittsburgh Review of Books
George Saunders will be appearing at Pittsburgh Arts and Lectures as part of the "Ten Evening Series" at the Carnegie Music Hall on September 14th, 2026 at
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 09/09/2026
Not to brag, but our product has been foldable since 1828.
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Daniel van Strien @danielvanstrien.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
OCR for Japanese manga, Swedish handwriting or Arabic print? There’s a growing range of OCR models on @hf.co: VLMs, dedicated text recognisers and complete OCR pipelines. I’ve gathered 41 models into four collections, with short notes to help you choose: huggingface.co/collections/...
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OCR on the Hub - a davanstrien Collection
Curated OCR models for documents, languages, handwriting and text in images. Browse four collections with short practical notes.
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Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Literary fiction is coming. It is going to revolutionize the economy. We know that China has already got a start on literary fiction. We can’t afford to be left out of the literary fiction economy. Think of your kids. They might already be engaging with literary fiction.
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Chris Warren @chriswarren.info · 03/09/2026
8/ Robbins: PRoB, published by Carnegie Mellon’s English department, is the first Review of Books birthed in academia...[It's] arrived at the perfect time, just as newspaper book sections are disappearing and readers want something more than AI algorithms and spam stars. pghrev.com/hollis-robbi...
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Hollis Robbins on PRoB - Pittsburgh Review of Books
Please support PRoB so that we can continue publishing engaged, incisive, and smart cultural criticism for many years to come.
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Chris Warren @chriswarren.info · 03/09/2026
1/ If you'll indulge me, I want to take a second to crow about something I'm really proud to've fostered as Head of Carnegie Mellon Department of English: The Pittsburgh Review of Books @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social.
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Chris Warren @chriswarren.info · 03/09/2026
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Chris Warren @chriswarren.info · 03/09/2026
14/ I need to end with Lori Jakiela's words: "passionate ideas and dreams lighting tiny fires everywhere" I can think of no better way to describe Year 1 of the Pittsburgh Review of Books. pghrev.com/the-return-o...
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The Return of the Literary Salon - Pittsburgh Review of Books
“Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful. And that is all as it should be.” – Gertrude Stein
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Chris Warren @chriswarren.info · 03/09/2026
13/ Tom Zoellner beautifully calls it "guardianship of the most important talk of all." pghrev.com/tom-zoellner... Students' ongoing role in that communal guardianship is less visible to readers but no less real and valuable than the written contributions themselves.
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Tom Zoellner on PRoB - Pittsburgh Review of Books
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Chris Warren @chriswarren.info · 03/09/2026
12/ "Involving Students." Pause over that. In a world where most public discussion of arts and ideas happens over social media, these budding intellectuals are gaining real-world experience sustaining a richer, more textured version of the humanities.
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Chris Warren @chriswarren.info · 03/09/2026
11/ Christopher Schaberg rightly observes > Ed has done a brilliant job gaining momentum, attracting contributors, involving students, and overall just creating an inviting platform for established and emerging writers around the arts, contemporary society, and ideas. pghrev.com/christopher-...
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Christopher Schaberg on PRoB - Pittsburgh Review of Books
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Chris Warren @chriswarren.info · 03/09/2026
10/ Students in Ed's class regularly interact with authors, field pitches, and draft their own contributions.
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Chris Warren @chriswarren.info · 03/09/2026
9/ I'm really proud of this. We know the world's changing fast. Our PhD program in Computational Cultural Studies is another testament to that. But we've not only launched PRoB from within academia but also found ways to leverage it in contexts like teaching, mentorship, and professionalization.
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Chris Warren @chriswarren.info · 03/09/2026
8/ Robbins: PRoB, published by Carnegie Mellon’s English department, is the first Review of Books birthed in academia...[It's] arrived at the perfect time, just as newspaper book sections are disappearing and readers want something more than AI algorithms and spam stars. pghrev.com/hollis-robbi...
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Hollis Robbins on PRoB - Pittsburgh Review of Books
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Chris Warren @chriswarren.info · 03/09/2026
7/As Lori Jakiela writes When I long for literary companionship, exciting conversations, ecstatic poems, stories that light me up and hold me close to others...I am thankful for dear Ed Simon and The Pittsburgh Review of Books. pghrev.com/the-return-o...
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The Return of the Literary Salon - Pittsburgh Review of Books
“Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful. And that is all as it should be.” – Gertrude Stein
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Chris Warren @chriswarren.info · 03/09/2026
6/ PRoB's quickly became one of the premier venues for ideas and culture. It's free and it's essential.
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Chris Warren @chriswarren.info · 03/09/2026
5/ In its one short year of existence, Ed & team have published Viet Thanh Nguyen @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social, Peter Catapano, Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social, and brilliant, important interviews with Rita Dove, Michael Chabon, Simon Armitage, R.F. Kuang, and soon George Saunders!
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Chris Warren @chriswarren.info · 03/09/2026
4/ Hollis Robbins @anecdotal.bsky.social likens PRoB to a "revitalizing spa for the mind." pghrev.com/hollis-robbi...
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Hollis Robbins on PRoB - Pittsburgh Review of Books
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Chris Warren @chriswarren.info · 03/09/2026
3/ Michael Berube @michael-berube.bsky.social gets it exactly right when he says PRoB's "a cornucopia for people who still care about art and literature and thinking and culture in general." pghrev.com/why-we-need-...
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Why We Need This Here Thing - Pittsburgh Review of Books
Please support PRoB so that we can continue publishing engaged, incisive, and smart cultural criticism for many years to come.
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Chris Warren @chriswarren.info · 03/09/2026
According to PRoB's founder and editor Ed Simon, Today marks one year of publication for Pittsburgh Review of Books, which as of today means 574 published pieces ranging from undergraduates getting their first byline to Pulitzer Prize winners.
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Chris Warren @chriswarren.info · 03/09/2026
1/ If you'll indulge me, I want to take a second to crow about something I'm really proud to've fostered as Head of Carnegie Mellon Department of English: The Pittsburgh Review of Books @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social.
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Richard Jean So @richardjeanso.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Really worthwhile CFP f/ Computational Humanities Research on "Peripheries," inviting work that uses data-driven approaches to recovering marginalized, lost voices in the cultural record/archive & what's been lost through processes of mass corpus digitization: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Peripheries
Call for Papers: Peripheries
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Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) @adho-org.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
📢 AI and History Conference 2026 📍 October 15–16, 2026 | Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 🔗 The conference program is available at: proflouishyman.github.io/ai_conferenc... ⏰️ Registration closes September 15, 2026. 🔗 More info & registration: proflouishyman.github.io/ai_conferenc...
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AI and History Conference 2026
A practitioner-focused conference for historians using AI and computational methods, October 15–16, 2026 at Johns Hopkins University.
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Chris Warren @chriswarren.info · 21/08/2026
*rubs head* senior fellowships indeed
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Chris Warren @chriswarren.info · 20/08/2026
spreadsheets ARE people
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Chris Warren @chriswarren.info · 16/08/2026
I was laughing with someone recently about buying a 2026 model and slapping one of those stickers on it for absolution
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Chris Warren @chriswarren.info · 08/08/2026
sounds awesome!
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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b
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Chris Warren @chriswarren.info · 26/07/2026
Drop your crime-fighting Catholics 📸: Kenneth Spencer Research Library (blogs.lib.ku.edu/spencer/tag/...)
expurgated copy of Opere del die vino poeta Danthe [Divina Commedia]. Venice: Bernardino Stagnino, 1512.
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Chris Warren @chriswarren.info · 24/07/2026
As if from a holy wind, this new book appeared in my fb feed. Imagine my disappointment when it turned out the real title of the book was **God’s Arsenal**
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Chris Warren @chriswarren.info · 11/07/2026
@kevinzollman.com this project by @lav.io etc. is one of my favs thenewinquiry.com/white-collar...
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White Collar Crime Risk Zones
The New Inquiry is pleased to announce the launch of White Collar Crime Risk Zones, a predictive policing application that targets white collar crime. View the project online here. White Collar Cri…
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Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The MIT Data + Feminism Lab is hiring a one year postdoc! We are working with Andrea Parker (GA Tech) and Brooke Foucault-Welles (Northeastern) on a project related to youth as co-designers of civic technologies to support neighborhood community wellness. careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...
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Postdoctoral Associate
MIT - Postdoctoral Associate - Cambridge MA 02139
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
2/ Infographic from Corrarino's @justsecurity.org essay.⤵️ As American as International Law www.justsecurity.org/145416/as-am...
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
"Independence may be the theme of the day, but even a simple backyard barbecue relies at almost every turn on international law." Another eye-opening essay by @corrarino.bsky.social. A wonderful and necessary read. www.justsecurity.org/145416/as-am... 1/🧵
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As American as International Law
A Fourth of July barbecue demonstrates how international law shapes daily life, and where that architecture is under strain.
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Katie McDonough @kmcdono.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Applications for this 2-year postdoc at @cmu.edu are starting to be reviewed now, so don't delay! Please spread the news to your local #DH networks. One of the people you'll be working with is me :) I am excited to meet this new colleague and collaborate on computational humanities in Pittsburgh!
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Meredith Martin @mmvty.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
This should concern all of us. What is your institution doing to preserve collective memory?
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Cindy Anh Nguyen @cindyanguyen.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
postdoctoral fellow in computational humanities and publishing: CMU cmu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/CMU/job/Pitt...
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Computational Humanities and Publishing - CMU Libraries and CMU Press - UEIS
The Carnegie Mellon University Libraries and Carnegie Mellon University Press invite applications for a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Computational Humanities and Publishing. This is an exciting opportun...
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Chris Warren @chriswarren.info · 29/05/2026
Many thanks to Ed Simon and the amazing Pittsburgh Review of Books @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social for the invitation to share some thoughts on how networks reveal what @theguardian.com's ranked list obscures pghrev.com/networking-t...
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Networking the Guardian 100 - Pittsburgh Review of Books
In an unfamiliar city, I rarely walk into an empty restaurant. How good could the food be if nobody eats there? At least a crowded restaurant's one that many
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Chris Warren @chriswarren.info · 29/05/2026
Many thanks to Ed Simon and the amazing Pittsburgh Review of Books @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social for the invitation to share some thoughts on how networks reveal what @theguardian.com's ranked list obscures pghrev.com/networking-t...
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Networking the Guardian 100 - Pittsburgh Review of Books
In an unfamiliar city, I rarely walk into an empty restaurant. How good could the food be if nobody eats there? At least a crowded restaurant's one that many
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Jeffrey Perkel (he/him) @jperkel.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
This is a fascinating study. And @marlabroadfoot.bsky.social covered it in a deep dive into 'biocodicology' for @nature.com in April! Check it out: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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How DNA forensics is transforming studies of ancient manuscripts
Scientists are exposing the biological information hidden in ancient parchments without leaving a mark.
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T. Derscheid @derscheid.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
This is fun to click around in.
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Frank Lynch @fplynch.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
There goes my Tuesday
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Chris Warren @chriswarren.info · 18/05/2026
The Guardian published a list of top 100 novels as voted on by various authors and critics. I turned it into a network to foreground literary tastes and tastemakers. chriswarren.info/novels-worth...
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684 Novels Worth Arguing About
The Guardian called it a Top 100. But 172 voters named 684 books. Explore the full list and the communities of readers behind it.
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James K. Tauber @jtauber.com · 19/05/2026
In case you missed it, here's my extraction and initial analysis of the Guardian Best 100 Novels dataset. jtauber.github.io/guardian-nov... and also check out chriswarren.info/novels-worth... from @chrisvvarren.bsky.social
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Guardian 100 Best Novels (2026) — Voting Data
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Chris Warren @chriswarren.info · 19/05/2026
also gives this info in the panel
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Chris Warren @chriswarren.info · 19/05/2026
a search for an author should now highlight all of their books, e.g, Austen. thanks for the suggestion!
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